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Introduction (2018)
Book Chapter

This volume brings together contributions inspired by discussions that took place during the Panel “Positioning the self and others: Linguistic traces” which was held at the 14th IPrA Conference in Antwerp, 26–31 July 2015. Though much work has been... Read More about Introduction.

Civic Labs for urban change Layers of planning, between civil society, politics and the economy (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Fundamental questions of future urban development can only be addressed when municipal administrations work alongside civic society. Civic and production labs – along with think tanks – increasingly come into play, shaping new forms and approaches to... Read More about Civic Labs for urban change Layers of planning, between civil society, politics and the economy.

Underworld as servant and smokescreen: Crimes of the Powerful and the evolution of organized crime control (2018)
Book Chapter

Crimes of the Powerful (CotP), published in 1976, was the first book to make the case in any depth that the phenomena known as “corporate crime” and “organized crime” were not mutually exclusive. Frank Pearce argued that gangsters, far from being dic... Read More about Underworld as servant and smokescreen: Crimes of the Powerful and the evolution of organized crime control.

I'm sorry you are such an arsehole: (non-)canonical apologies and their implications for (im)politeness (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 Elsevier B.V. I report on a study into how native British English speakers (N = 78) respond to various instances of I'm sorry played to them in an experimental setting. The test items vary in terms of what the speaker is ‘sorry’ for, but are c... Read More about I'm sorry you are such an arsehole: (non-)canonical apologies and their implications for (im)politeness.

'Horrid rebellion' and 'holie cheate': Royalist gentry responses to interregnum government in North-East Wales, 1646-1660 (2018)
Journal Article

This article significantly adds to works on Interregnum religion and government by considering the response to that period of a conservative, rather than a radical, region and social group. It examines the reaction of the royalist, religiously conser... Read More about 'Horrid rebellion' and 'holie cheate': Royalist gentry responses to interregnum government in North-East Wales, 1646-1660.

‘The streets have been watched regularly’: The York Penitentiary Society, young working-class women, and the regulation of behaviour in the public spaces of York, c. 1845– 1919 (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The York Penitentiary Society, a charitable female reformatory in York, aimed to transform ‘fallen’ women in the city into useful citizens through institutionalisation, domestic training... Read More about ‘The streets have been watched regularly’: The York Penitentiary Society, young working-class women, and the regulation of behaviour in the public spaces of York, c. 1845– 1919.

Policy brief for law enforcement and policy making agencies in Jamaica May 2018: Organized crime control in Jamaica: A small island country’s dilemma (2018)
Report

Re-conceptualising organized crime control in Jamaica requires an evidence informed strategy which must be more suited to local conditions and variations than the present structure.

Jamaica, like other indebted countries, has reduced tariff revenu... Read More about Policy brief for law enforcement and policy making agencies in Jamaica May 2018: Organized crime control in Jamaica: A small island country’s dilemma.